General Oleksiy Pukach, a key suspect in the murder of the journalist Georgy Gongadze, has been detained in Zhytomyr region, the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine reported on Wednesday morning.

Belarus' emergencies ministry has shut down a major Russian diesel pipeline to Latvia's Ventspils, it said Tuesday, citing failures by the pipeline owner to fix numerous deffects that could lead to leaks.

A 14 year-old teenager from the Moscow region city of Volokolamsk has beaten his grandmother and her friend up with a frying pan. The angry teenager had repeatedly told them that they were preventing him from getting to sleep. However, the old ladies only rebuked the boy for insolence.

Ahead of Joe Biden's visit to the country, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has revealed plans to ask the United States to supply his country with advanced defensive weapons, The Washington Post writes.